Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race
In New England's relatively short but colorful surfski history (whatever happened to that that guy who used to paddle with a porcupine balanced on his rear deck?), this year's Lighthouse to Lighthouse may rank as the best ever all-around race. It had a little of everything: most of the top [...]
The L2L is the best attended race outside the Blackburn Challenge. It is one of my favorite races due to the venue and the race direction of Wayne Lysobey, Gary Williams and crew. It also caps off the race season for many paddlers and is the final race in SurfskiRacing.com [...]
Too late, we realized our blunder; we had cut inside of the island we were supposed to go ‘round, having fallen prey to the dreaded ‘lighthouse fixation,’ a nautical term used to describe an obsessive infatuation with beacon-bearing towers. As one lanky, bearded hakham (Yiddish for ‘wise man’) observed after [...]
The weather was cooperative. No hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, or thunderstorms. It was the competition in various classes that was lightning, as in fast. Three boats bettered the previous course record of 1:47:19 set by Sean Brennan in 2009 in his Epic V-12 surfski. The surfski time was beaten by [...]
The Lighthouse to Lighthouse Race is one of my favorite races. It is 14 miles of ocean paddling around islands and lighthouses and has a beautiful long beach, plenty of parking, and great attendance, and the Race Director Wayne Lysobey and Gary Williams do a wonderful job putting on [...]
